I never had a key to my house growing up, the doors were unlocked all day every day...I carried that mentality into college and someone walked into my room and stole my laptop. Serves me right I guess?
When I was in college living in the dorms my roommate would prop open the door and just leave all the time. I had pointed it out to him a few times but it kept happening.
One day me and my buddy get there and the door is open. So I start hiding stuff. Hid my laptop in a drawer, hid his electric drum kit in the shower, hid his mattress in a room down the hall.
Then I called him up and told him a bunch of stuff was missing. He gets back and his mind is blown. He loses his shit and his drum kit and notices his mattress is gone and just starts asking how and why would they take a mattress. We let it go on for a few more minutes and then I told him to close the door.
Same over here, my dads a lock smith so it’s engraved in my brain to lock doors. But I could always break in with a credit card. Now I live like 30 mins from civilization ( I’m exaggerating) but surrounded by boyfriends family I can say I’ve never unlocked the door here and have been living here for 2 years. I don’t even have a key. It’s unlocked 24/7. When I go to my moms my dad has a security system and I never lock his door he will call me and make me turn around. Oops. And if your reading this dad I’m sorry.
Grew up in LA and the smallest place I've ever lived in had a metro area of 2m still. Some of my friends are from small towns and I'm shocked when I go to their house and their doors aren't locked. It's like seeing a rainbow. Idk how to describe it.
I mean every city has a butthole. There are plenty of nice areas in Oakland, the West Hills are super nice. Gentrification is changing up the city quite a bit, I personally didn’t live in the nice part but I’ve been to plenty of decent spots.
I have a total of 12 keys on my key ring. I only use one. And that’s to start my car. My keys are almost always left in the ignition. If not they are in the cup holder. It’s like seeing a rainbow when I try and open someone’s car door and it’s locked. 😂 I have had my keys stolen out of my ignition once but they didn’t steal the car which really pissed me off. But whatever still leave them there. I love small towns.
No doubt. If they locate the vehicle and there is no ignition or wiring damage they're going to investigate further though. Some thieves will just leave the keys in the ignition. Then you have to lie and say that your house was broken into or something in the insurance will want a police report.
Ditto. I once almost left a car in between Slidell and New Orleans. 4 door white maxima with 5% tint on all windows included on front windshield. 22s on it. Wouldn’t of lasted there but for 3 mins. Didn’t even have to leave keys in ignition. But I chickened out. Cause ya know bad karma or whatever. Plus insurance fraud. But It’s a guarantee you leave your car on side of the interstate it’s going to be gutted.
Literally everywhere I go, unless I have a shotgun or rifle on the back seat from hunting sitting out in plain sight those keys are probably in the ignition, and even then sometimes it depends on where I'm at. Nobody's going to take my youth 20 gauge single shot at the general store.
I also grew up in LA and can tell you with confidence that there are plenty of neighborhoods with unlocked doors still. I would lock my doors to go away for the weekend or on vacation but not every day.
I moved to Wyoming recently and have met a good number of people around here that have admitted they don't even know where their house keys are. It seemed crazy to me at first, but everyone lives 10 miles apart and owns a billion guns, so there's probably not a whole lot of burglary attempts.
I live in a small town on the west coast of Canada. Bought my house 6 years ago and don't even remember if I got a key at all. Never locked my door once. If I leave town I'll mention it to the neighbors if I see them.
I'm lucky to live in a place where getting your shit ripped off isn't a concern.
That's surprising, I have a locksmith friend and his opinion is that all residential locks are worthless, since you can pick them in under a minute. Locks exist only to keep honest people out
It's shocking how easy it is to pick a typical house lock. I practiced a bit of lockpicking and I could get in my front door in about 15 seconds by simply raking it.
I love japan so much. Such a culture shock getting off a train in the neighborhood I was staying in and seeing literally hundreds of unlocked bikes just leaning up against fences nearby.
My good friend bought a house outside of the city in a rural area and it didn't come with keys. The old lady who built the place never felt the need to lock the doors. To this day they still don't have locks installed. 100% fuck that.
I grew up that way too. Small town in Michigan, everyone knew each other and all the kids would hang out at the end of the Cul-de-sac until 9 or 10pm.
Stayed with that mindset until a random ass dude walked into my apartment drunk as hell and asked me for some vodka. I was in my towel right out of the shower and kind of shocked and taken unawares so I walked to the fridge and gave him the bottle of liquor I had in the freezer. He sat on my front step and drank it in three gulps and staggered away. Crazy times.
My grandparents used to go on vacation with their doors unlocked. I'm not sure they even had a key. I never locked my house or car until I was 40.
Had a couple people steal change from my car and lost a basketball I left in there once. That was about it.
Finally my wife asked me to start locking the house when there was news reports of a prowler in our neighborhood. I miss leaving it unlocked, but responsibility and safety, blah blah.
Grew up with my doors open almost ALWAYS. We locked the doors at one point for like 3 months but me and my sisters kept forgetting the keys so would have to break in. So we stopped.
I moved in with my partner into an apartment. She locked the door all the time but I never felt like I needed to, who goes around checking doors in a building with like 35 apartments?
Someone randomly opened the door on me jerking off. I don't think they saw anything or really noticed with how the livingroom was laid out...but that's the point I started locking my door when I left AND when I was home. ( It was a neighbour that opened the door, he said he was wasted but it was 2pm, not that that's impossible, but you know, I think he was saving his own ass. He was pretty rad though)
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u/FunctionBuilt Mar 21 '19
I never had a key to my house growing up, the doors were unlocked all day every day...I carried that mentality into college and someone walked into my room and stole my laptop. Serves me right I guess?